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Carollia perspicillata, Seba's Short-tailed Bat
Dr. Nancy Simmons - American Museum of Natural History
Carollia perspicillata
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American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 266126)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 09 May 2002

Views: whole specimen | head only | ankle | wrist

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Carollia perspicillata, Seba’s short-tailed bat, is an echolocating bat native to Central and South America. It is a member of Phyllostomidae, a group characterized by a spear-shaped noseleaf. The function of the noseleaf is unknown, but scientists suspect that it plays a role in projection of echolocation calls, which are emitted through the nose in some species (including all phyllostomids). Carollia is a fruit-eating bat that specializes on fruits of the genus Piper. It is often the most common bat species in regions where it occurs.

Carollia perspicillata
About the Species

This whole preserved specimen, a male, was collected from Paracou, Sinnamary, in French Guiana on 17 June 1991. It is now part of the American Museum of Natural History Mammalogy Collections (AMNH 266126). The specimen was made available for scanning by Dr. Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History. Funding for scanning was provided by a National Science Foundation grant (DEB-9873663) to Dr. Simmons, and funding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of the Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 13 June 2002 along the coronal axis for a total of 189 slices, each slice 0.0182 mm thick with an interslice spacing of 0.0195 mm.

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Links

Mammalian Species account of Carollia perspicillata (American Society of Mammalogists)

Carollia perspicillata on The Animal Diversity Web (The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)

Short-tailed leaf-nosed bats on Walker's Mammals of the World Online

Bat Conservation International

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To cite this page: Dr. Nancy Simmons, 2002, "Carollia perspicillata" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed March 28, 2024 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Carollia_perspicillata/ankle/.

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